【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

Although the tower branch is a branch, the professionalism of the staff is obviously strong enough, even in the face of such a tragic situation of corpses that make people want to vomit.Although it happened suddenly, but I brought enough tools and did a quick autopsy to confirm my identity on the spot. The time of death and the cause of death were not so fast, but what Xiaojie and Qiya urgently need to know for the time being is only the two who appeared in Who is the unknown corpse in Kate's tomb.

This quick autopsy didn't take long, and they already knew the names of the two bodies by noon.Surprisingly, Xiaojie knew both of them:

Agum Dort and Urata Shuta.Urata is an A-rank Sentinel, and Agum is a B-rank.At the beginning, they all participated in the investigation of the missing persons case together with Xiaojie and Strange, but they were separated from Xiaojie and the others due to splitting up during the execution of the mission.After Xiaojie and Strange fell into the enemy's trap by accident, they lost their news, but after escaping later, I heard that they escaped successfully, and they did not suffer any serious injuries. Xiaojie and Strange recovered faster and were discharged from the hospital, and resumed their missions.

Qi Ya suddenly realized something was wrong.

This message...was given to them by the female intermediary Bonaye.

He has an excellent memory, and after thinking about it carefully, he recalled the details of the conversation at that time:

——"I heard that the same group of sentries who participated in the same missing persons investigation mission with him have basically recovered?"

——"Well, yes, and no one else has the situation that Xiaojie can't see the spiritual guide after waking up. You know, it is rare for Xiaojie. They all recovered well, and the two have already recovered. The mission is over, and there is another one who has not been discharged from the hospital, but his recovery is also very good, I heard that he is the most seriously injured besides Xiaojie, and he has a concussion."

And Bonaye lied about this piece of information.

It's just that they thought she was lying about the situation as a "spiritual guide to other people", especially Strange, who was still in the hospital at the time.In fact, Qi Ya has always been wary of Strange, which he has not stated explicitly.After all, the other two people can be said to have been left behind from the beginning of the mission, and their sense of existence was extremely low from the beginning to the end. It can be said that they left after paddling.Only Strange was in the same space as Xiaojie when the accident happened. Now that the tower has been infiltrated by unknown forces into its current state, it is hard to say whether he did something. If Bonaye did it for Lying to conceal his mental state or some other pressing matter would make sense.

But it later turned out that all the information Bonayer revealed about Strange was actually true.Due to his fixed thinking, Qi Ya always thought that he and Xiaojie lied to Bonaye at the beginning and made a mistake.

But now, if we combine the information at hand, especially the identities of the two corpses, with what Bonaye said, we can clearly know the truth that has been ignored for a long time——

Bonayer's lie was the sentence "the others are recovering well, and two of them have fully recovered and went on missions".

These two sentinels simply didn't escape unscathed as recorded in the incident.It's that he didn't know when he died unexpectedly.

However, there is still a big doubt in this matter that cannot be explained.

Kate died more than a year ago, but it was four or five months ago that Xiaojie and the two sentries went on a mission together.In any case, the time of their death cannot be dealt with to a proper and reasonable point.If it weren't for his illness, the person who did this wouldn't have dug up Kate's grave and put these two bodies in it after Kate had been dead for so long.

Having said that, why did the person who did all this put these two corpses in Kate's tomb?

Qi Ya felt that heavy doubts shrouded the core of the incident like a solidified fog, but this was the first time in such a long time that he had the idea of ​​not wanting to continue thinking.

Or it should be said that he has no energy left to think.

He lightly turned off the call button, turned to the people in the tower branch, and said, "The tower asked me to go back and report in detail, so I'm leaving first."

The people in the tower branch were stunned for a moment: "Are you two leaving so soon? Are you waiting for the detailed results of the autopsy? The exact time and cause of death have not been tested yet..."

Qi Ya paused, his eyes flicked over the leaves of the world tree on the staff's shoulders, and he floated back, sitting on a wisp of wind, and lightly landed on the back of the forensic doctor who was squatting beside the forensic doctor and watching the work of the forensic doctor motionlessly , froze for a moment, and was blown away lightly.

The wind stopped.Qi Ya said slowly: "He will wait. I... just go back by myself. Please... take care of him."

He wasn't sure if the woman heard something from his last words, she frowned and looked at him for a while, then said thoughtfully but with concern: "Is something important? The guide can't leave rashly His sentinel?"

Although her tone was gentle, the last sentence still pierced Qi Ya's heart like a small poisonous needle, cunningly rushing up and down along the blood.

Qi Ya smiled: "Thank you."

But he doesn't need me now.he thinks.

I... can't save him.

Xiaojie stood up from where he was squatting.

The forensic doctor was concentrating on the bottles and jars, various skin and flesh tissues, and solution reagents in his hands, and had no time to care about him, nor did he notice that he stood up.Seeing that he couldn't finish it for a while, Xiaojie turned around and walked to Kate's tombstone.

Because this kind of thing happened unexpectedly, the scene was in a hurry.Those doing the autopsy, assisting the autopsy, contacting the headquarters of the tower, checking the cemetery surveillance, inquiring about the guards and checking the list of recent visits to the cemetery...all of them are very busy.Only this small piece of open space, only Kate and Jay are free.

Of course, it is not appropriate to say that it is leisure.In fact, Xiaojie just has nothing to do compared to other people.

He is waiting.

He sat down, leaning against Kate's tombstone.The temperature of the stone tablet is icy cold, which is the temperature from the faint yellow spring. It guides the blood from every cell on the surface of the skin until it flows into the heart, where it curls up and curls up, as if a snake lived in the heart valve.

He didn't look at Kate's picture on the tombstone.

Xiaojie closed his eyes, he could hear the sound of the car engine starting, he could smell the cold fragrance of pine wood soaking in snow, and he could distinguish the faint and familiar pheromone from the rotten smell. The taste, like grasping at a straw, and like wanting to confirm that the person has really left.

He glanced at his watch.Thirty, three o'clock in the afternoon.

Tomorrow is the 31st.

—Foghorn Alley, 31.

He had monitored the most important information from that meeting in the dilapidated attic earlier.

On the electronic map, the location of Foghorn Alley was actually not found, which probably meant some slang words used by the other party.However, Xiaojie had the communicator in his hand from the man from the behind-the-scenes organization. After being tortured by the black doctor to extract a confession, he got the common internal signal of the communicator, which was as thin as a cicada's wing.After carefully disassembling the communicator, taking out the locator, and putting it on a stray puppy, Xiaojie finally learned about Foghorn Alley after using the communicator and talking carefully for a few days. where the truth lies.

It may be a coincidence, of course, there is also a greater possibility of a deliberate trap.

"Foghorn Alley", in the city where Kate's graveyard is located.

He wasn't sure what would happen on the 31st.In fact, Xiaojie is not unaware that this message may be a trap.but--

So what?

Even if it is a trap, he has to go.

Xiaojie is never afraid of traps.He is powerful enough to defy most plots, tearing them apart and trampling them underfoot.Even though he was once plotted against in the previous mission and suffered the kind of experience that ordinary people would regard as lifeless, Xiaojie did not have any psychological shadow because of the experience at that time.Or in Leorio's words, he doesn't have a long memory at all.

This may be the generality of Sentry, but in fact, this is especially evident in Xiaojie.

Others always worried that he couldn't see the spiritual guide because he was an experimental subject and had some worries, but in fact, Xiaojie knew that he didn't have one.

He is not afraid.He is not lost.He didn't even care about the dangers that might be thrown at him.

but……

Chiya can't.

He couldn't put Kiya in such danger.He needs an excuse to stay here, he needs to separate decisively from Qi Ya.He needs a blank time, and Qi Ya will never take the initiative to contact him during this completely free time.

There may be a better way to deal with this matter... But Xiaojie can't think of it for the time being.

Xiaojie leaned on his teacher's tombstone and sighed like he was acting like a baby when leaning against the tall silver-haired young man.

"Kate, I'm so stupid," he said. "I actually made him so sad."

Xiaojie casually grabbed a lily flower that was put aside, tore its petals into five fragments that were still fragrant and undisguised, and sprinkled them in the huge, naked, scar-like pit. When it was buried in the soil, it was swept up by the wind, swaying and caressing into the distance like offering a gift.

Xiaojie didn't move, and raised his eyes, watching the petals soaked in the spring, gently and slowly being kneaded into broken light and shadow.He lowered his eyes, and the blood-red light in the golden pupils flickered, and then shattered like the petals of the petals, returning to nothingness.

"I will definitely...make them pay the price."

Let those who do not regret their deaths...

Broken into dross.

then……

If you can go back alive, go and apologize to Qi Ya.

He leaned against the tombstone and closed his eyes, and curled his hands loosely on his chest, as if he wanted to use his hands to hold the sadness that came from Qi Ya's deep sea, which was continuously drowning and swallowing him through unstable spiritual links.

I don't know if he will forgive me.

TBC.